Improvement in corsets



T. F. HAMILTON.

CORSET.

N0.188,394. Patented March 27,1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIGE.

THOMAS F. HAMILTON, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORSETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 188,894, dated March27, 1877 a plication filed February 20, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS F. HAMILTON, ofNew Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare thefollowing, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings andthe letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of thisspecification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a rear view of the central portion of the corset, and in Fig.2 a vertical section through the supporter.

This invention relates to an improvement in corsets, the object being toprovide a skirtsupporter as a permanent part of the corset.

It consists in a supportingpiece attached transversely at the center ofthe back of the corset, at the line of thewaist, combined with a slitfrom the supporter upward, and with a vertical slit at each sideextending from the bottom to a point above the supporter, and each ofsaid slits provided with the usual eyelets for adjustment, as more fullyhereinafter described.

Instead of opening the corset at the back from top to bottom foradjustment, as in the usual construction, it is open from the top to thewaist-line a, and each side of the slit provided with eyelets, in theusual manner. At the waist-line, across the back, the supporting piece Ais attached. This consists of a roll, or any suitable projection, whichmay be permanently attached to the corset, and extend transverselyacross the central portion of the back.

At each side of this supporter A a vertical slit, b, is made, extendingup to a point, 0, some distance above the waist-line or supporter. Theseslits are also provided with eyelets in the usual manner for corsets.

The object of extending the slits above the support is to make thecorset adjustable at the waist-line, which could not be done with thesingle slit above'; but these two slits allow of the necessaryadjustment at that point. Above the supporter A the skirts are secured,so that the weight of the skirts will rest thereon.

I do not wish to be understood as broadly claiming a stationaryskirt-supporter arranged at the waist-line on a corset, as such, I amaware, is not new; but such support has usually been applied at eachside, and not at the back, the center of the back being, however, themost desirable place for that support, and where it can only be appliedby the combination of the side slits with the vertical slit above thesupporter. Neither do I wish to be understood as broadly claiming askirt supporter made as a part of the corset, or a corset in which thereare several lacing-slits, as such, I am aware, is not new.

I claim In a corset, the combination of the stationary skirtsupporter,arranged transversely across the center of the back waist-line, with avertical slit from the supporter up, and side slits extending from thebottom to a point above the supporter or waist-line, substantially asspecified.

THOS. F. HAMILTON.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, CLARA BROUGHTON.

